Presentation Training Skills

Presentations Skills Training Seminars are provided across the United States & Canada via public open enrollment seminars in most major metropolitan areas and can also be delivered on-site via private presentation workshops. Our presentation skills training courses can be provided as off-the-shelf presentations seminars, workshops, or classes. The classes are ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored presentations and personalized approach based on client needs. All presentations skills classes are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase seminar effectiveness and provide the individual level of presentations coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Skills Training Workshops Center.

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Effective Presentations Training - The Need for Proofs

To create a credible presentation, you must provide supporting materials to back up your claims. Although people might like you and want to believe you, a well-crafted presentation includes proofs demonstrating that what you say is true. Proofs serve a number of purposes including:

1) Clarifying your position or main ideas

2) Showing that your claims are true and accurate

3) Creates not only a lasting but also a memorable impression

Proofs are the life blood of your presentation. Without proofs, you are simply providing the audience with a flimsy verbal outline of main ideas. Your credibility suffers. Your presentation becomes generic and even unbelievable. The material that gives your presentation meat and weight are the various proofs that you can provide.

Types of proofs include:

1) Facts and figures: Information that can be verified and confirmed by an outside source.

2) Statistics: data explaining something in terms of size or frequency. Statistics are powerful because they sound like facts and figures. However, statistics can be easily manipulated. When evaluating statistics always consider the source. Compare your statistics to others and if possible, seek multiple sources to ensure they are accurate. When presenting statistics, quote the statistic completely, and use only current information.

3) Statements by authority: quotes from an expert on your subject. If the person you're quoting from is not well known, provide her credentials along with her quote. Statements by popular figures like politicians, television or radio personalities may be used, as well, but should not be confused with statements by authority, nor should they be presented as such.

4) Testimony: supporting statements by others. Testimony can be expert, prestige or lay. Expert testimony is the same as "statements by authority" as described above. Prestige testimony is supporting statements made by an individual held in high esteem, like a well-liked politician, a famous business personality or a movie star. Lay testimony is supporting statements made by someone from the community who is not necessarily an expert on the subject. Lay testimony is often used to show that a problem or issue is prevalent, and is identified by others as a problem.

5) Narratives: examples in the form of a story. Narratives should have a beginning, a middle, and an ending, and should be interesting without including unnecessary details.

Facts and figures, statistics and testimony are the only supporting materials that can prove that your presentation is credible. Without such types of proof, your argument will be weakened. However, a well-supported presentation will also include narratives to demonstrate how the subject impacts the audience in human terms. Use a combination of types of proofs to build a well-supported argument that also interests your listeners.

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